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It would be kind of neat if either of these two designs can be modified a bit. If the larger one, be made 90x90 so that it could fit next to a 728x90 ad without distorting the row (on desktop). But instead of "EMPOWERING COMMUNITY LEADERS" for the small one, put SITE OF THE MONTH: DEC 2024 (or whatever) and the same on the square one. I'd put that up on ROFLMAO. And 200 credits? Deal. [EMBED content=thread-284]https://administrata.net/threads/sotm-hall-of-fame.284/[/EMBED] Also, is this offer limited to 1 forum only?

I'm blaming it on the new layout. My bad.

Not too many have the funding to pre-fund accounts at 10+ registrars in order to pound the 500+ registrars (resellers too) all at once to grab the name. However, there's always a "lottery ticket" (1 in a million) chance that someone using outdated methods could still grab it. I have something similar that I'm going to be implementing on XF using a commerce store (no forum, just XF as the core).

That's kind of funny. I could create a conspiracy based just on that wherein they had the text written for deployment already and just needed to find/replace PANDEMIC_NAME. :-P To grab domains, it's a combination of scanning thousands of news articles to pick up on context and domain name registrar APIs to automatically register what is believed to be the name of value. However, this was pre-AI, so I'm sure people have updated their methodology since to be more effective at contextual references to grab the right name the first time.

It looks like as a previous Administrata Pro member, I was rolled into Administrata+. However, the subscription I had was billed monthly. It looks like Pro members were automatically rolled into a Plus subscription that is billed annually. [ATTACH type=full" size="1426x783]1421[/ATTACH] While agreeable that this saves, it's kind of a "bait and switch". I will have to cancel the + annual as my date approaches and subscribe monthly as I'm more comfortable managing monthly payments as opposed to forgetting about annual subscriptions. If this is the case, you should alert all Pro members as they may not be expecting their next bill to be $25 (or have the funds).

I was merely speaking of anecdotal experience (and an example that I could give) for things other than just forums, and as a domain name investor. A perfect example of this is Covid-19: The domain name [iCODE]Covid19.com[/iCODE] whois: The domain name [iCODE]Covid-19.com[/iCODE] whois: Someone was able to scan the news and immediately register that term. They could also be doing it for hundreds more each year to catch that diamond in the rough, but the flip of that domain alone would've been 6 to 7 figures, paying for all others that might only go for 10s to 100s. However, you have to know what you're looking for with trends and have multiple registrars that support API registrations to pound them all at once to grab the domain. It can work, but it might not work; in this case, I could probably very much so say that it did work. As far as forums go, I did have the intention of using [iCODE]UnmannedForum.com[/iCODE] for drones during the "drone invasion" for sightings/reportings (that would get censored/shadowbanned elsewhere). But, I didn't have the infrastructure in place to pop up a forum to fill it with content that would be engaging enough, like a forum should be (like using ChatGPT to recommend Category and node names based on the trend, automatically create them, create users to populate from sources, etc.). It's still going to be used for drone discussion, and perhaps UFO sightings in the Off-Topic/sections. But, you shouldn't chase emerging trends for a forum unless you can get it up within hours (lesson learned to build that out for forums, as I have for blogs).

It's best to be the trendsetter (if you can find a trend to start), and then as quickly as you start it, sell it for thousands more than you might expect from continuing it, and wash your hands of it. Just personal experience. To do this, you need to be on your toes 24/7 and have sufficient capital to invest in a "trend" when it first emerges, and to fill that gap as soon as possible. It could cost hundreds to thousands to do this, but the risk is worth the reward if you have the expertise to put something up immediately.

I like this better because it seems more "XF native". I'm sure it's easier to upkeep than most DoH styles are if it's not dependent on other things. I am migrating to something similar so that it can be the child of the parent XF style and update without issues. I updated from a 2.3.4 DoH style to 2.3.6 when I updated to XF 2.3.6 and it was missing a template. They've still not fixed the issue. Will be much easier when I have a solid, nice-looking (based on major CSS edits, but the core is the same), to merge child themes. It's the last time I use a 3rd party style; I've had too many issues with 3rd party styles (not to single DoH out), having to wait on them to upgrade XF, that it's just not worth buying them anymore when I can invest in a solid style that'll merge with each core XF update without issue. I'm having one done based on XF's parent so that it will upgrade with XF with no issue.

As a domainer, even though we have our differences, my advice to you would be to drop it when it's up for renewal (both of them). It's not worth $50, and I could go over a myriad of reasons why, the first being .org, and secondly, the uptick in "admin forums" for competition. An end user would be better off buying admin-forum.com (available) for $10 and saving $40 for an add on or towards a license or something more useful. You renewing them hoping for an end user in this saturated market (where every forum wants to be a webmaster/admin forum for now for whatever reason) just as dumb. Put it on aftermarket sales starting at $100 and ending at $10 to see if it even gets anything (remotely close to $50). I could've given you this great domain name investment advice (to not buy it in the first place even) had you not been unethical and provided CloudFlare with my home IP address (in violation of your privacy policy) to blocked me from your forum. But, whatever. Hold it. Renew it. Don't care. It's not my money. Cut your losses and ditch it would be my advice. Peace. Or, I mean, good luck on the sale...

XRUR needs an adult-like red or orange base.

This is kind of an irrelevant point because if you were looking to start a forum, you could view the source of any forum and find out what software it's running. This goes for branding free as well. Branding free, to my original assessment, only stops forum spam because spammers are running searches for forums and grabbing forum URLs... you can't search for HTML. Why would users care what forum software is running for as long as they can communicate? Unless, the community grows and likes one forum over another, so they decide to migrate together. It's more likely than not the intention to advertise the software to people that might want to start a forum (and get a ton of backlinks to support "forum software", etc. for search engine rankings). But, any "tech-savvy" (in which you should have the basic HTML skills to run a forum) user should be able to determine the forum software without a branding footer. Without looking at the copyright header here, you can view the source: <!DOCTYPE html> <html id="XF" lang="en-US" dir="LTR" And should be able to tell off the bat what forum software it's running. While developing ForumDirectory, I've only run into very few highly customized forums (less than 5) where I would be like, "This is running the link structure like vB, but it also has HTML elements that are seen in both Invision and XF... so what is it? 🤔" (Link structure is also a way to tell too... i.e., /1234-thread-name/, /123/thread-name, /thread-name.1234/...) I have about 10 forums' code on every platform saved in order to compare 1 forum against to quickly determine software automatically (if it doesn't catch the immediate signals like [iCODE]id="XF"[/iCODE], etc.), from phpBB to myBB to Woltlab to XF1 and vB3, etc.

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[HEADING=2]That said:[/HEADING] I am always on the lookout for XF licenses. If you have a fair price and are willing to transfer first, send me a PM for an instant sale.

To renew my "collection" when a more stable version of XF drops (speaking 2.4). [ATTACH type=full" alt="1741935831331.png]1382[/ATTACH] :p (And it'll probably be higher by then, too, as I keep adding more when somebody wants to sell. It's just no longer advantageous to get one and risk getting ripped off [again] by transferring money first [as to why I ask for the license first in most case-I won't risk my rep on $140-150ish, or even thousands, at that] when I can pay $165 for a bare bones license directly from XF when discounts are applied... in the case someone doesn't want to transfer first, $165 is the better option over losing $140).

They're scraped and most likely added to (shared) lists XRumer can get. It was a tactic I used for blog commenting way back when (when it worked and was profitable) using a scraper search "Powered by WordPress" to do automated comments with another program, posting comments written in another program that could spin text (now you have AI that can "spin", but it took time to spin unique comments [iCODE]{{Good morning,|Good afternoon,|Good evenening,} {all readers|everyone|all who came here}}...[/iCODE] to get random comments like [iCODE]Good afternoon, all who came here[/iCODE] -- except I sometimes went 4-5 levels deep).

I've removed the copyright footer on two XF licenses (and paid DBTech $300 or something for global on all their add ons for one forum). There is a noticeable difference in spambot registrations with the copyright footer vs. forums without it. A forum with the copyright footer seems to be hit almost as soon as it's indexed in Google (as they can easily scrape new forums by searching that phrase, or for instance, "Community platform by XenForo"), while a forum without it can go months before seeing 1 automated spambot signup. I've tested this across 4 different live forums and, since all use the same methods to prevent spam, I can only conclude it's the copyright footer that draws them in. That said, if you launch with the copyright footer, it's probably not going to make a difference to remove it a year later because it'll already be added to spambot lists as a forum that can be spammed. But you will notice a difference when you launch one without the footer. Prime example: FD was attacked almost instantly (copyright footer)... RS/ROFL hasn't been hit but by 1 or 2 automated bots (could be human) and 1 or 2 human spammers. FD was online for a much shorter period, but ROFL has been online since August 8, 2024 (nothing), and after the rebrand, and has yet to be attacked like FD. Your forum (should) eventually become too big to ignore and get added to the list, making it moot. But, it's a lot less work in the beginning, where you could spend the time you would've been fighting spam to build more content.

I have mine set to 15 minutes for "untrusted members" (that could be spam bots that edit in a link later) and they're automatically promoted to 12 hours after some time. I haven't set up DMs yet because I haven't seen a problem there yet.

2 movie tickets and snacks to see Captain America in IMAX

Jokes on you. Paid 20 credits to make it. :ROFLMAO:

69 And, 21.

I was hesitant to add politics and religion (or other divisive topics) to my general forum until I implemented an "ignore" forum feature so that people could hide it entirely. It gives people the power to discuss politics, or to have a place completely removed from politics, but can captivate an audience of both as it's essentially like "changing the TV channel" when something they don't like comes on.

Instead of pursuing this matter further than necessary, I decided to purchase ForumDirectory.com. It's a more authoritative name and is an Exact Match Domain (EMD) for its purpose. But, please report any errors as, with the purchase price, I will go to scorched Earth (as I had planned to do, but held it off as this was already in negotiations).

Obama took away an American's Constitutional right to due process by drone striking them off the face of the earth. For that reason alone, he should be in jail. Talk about Trump being a dictator... Bush Jr. was worse as he got us into a fake 20 year war that cost me some good people.

The problem with this is that a sidebar breaks to the lower portion of the page on mobile view, so it's easily dismissible. I would suggest that notices be used instead as they're prominent and on the top of the page (cannot be dismissed if set properly). In this case, the page template [iCODE]conversation_list[/iCODE] should have a notice like "You will not be able to send direct messages until you reach a minimum of 5 posts on the forum". When they reach 5, the notice will go away, if configured properly. This is very small and can easily be missed/ignored over a notice on [iCODE]conversation_add[/iCODE] along the lines of "You are restricted from sending direct messages until you have a minimum of 5 posts on the forum." And, it too, will disappear when the magic number 5 is hit, if configured properly. Just a UX enhancement for those under 5 posts and my 2 cents on how it should be implemented so it's not dismissed (as the sidebar is "invisible" on mobile view) or ignored (since the text is so small under the recipients). Whatever works I guess. 🤷‍♂️